Moral Mondays, the peaceful protests occurring at the capital every Monday, have grown in attendance in the face of some stringent Republican legislative measures. On July 1st, Reverend William Barber was in attendance and spoke to the crowd about recent Republican changes to voting rights after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision concerning the Voting Rights Act (1965).

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to strike-down the Voting Rights Act of 1965 gives the state more freedom in dictating its voting legislation. The court's decision now no longer requires Federal approval if North Carolina, or fifteen other southern states, want to change legislation governing voter identification requirements or redistricting measures. Opponents to the court's ruling believe without protections from the Voting Rights Act, discrimination against minority voting rights will go unchecked.

In another controversial U.S. Supreme Court decisions, the justices struck down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) which federally banned same-sex marriage. Unfortunately, for the state's same-sex couples marriage, for them, was made unconstitutional on May 8, 2012 by a state-wide vote. Legal issues and compensation for same-sex couples is still waiting clarification because though DOMA end discrimination federally, states can still determine whether or not to recognize, legally, same-sex marriages.